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1) Better boys, better men: the new masculinity that creates greater courage and emotional resiliency
Author
Language
English
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Description
"How modern forms of masculinity are harming men-and what we can do about it"--
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Mayim Bialik puts her Ph.D. to work to talk to teen boys about the science and pressures of growing up male in today's world. A must-have book for all teenage boys!
As an observant mother of two boys-- and with plenty of scientific information from her life as a neuroscientist-- Bialik talks directly to teen boys about what it means to grow from a boy to a man biologically, psychologically, and sociologically. She takes a look at what it means for...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From early childhood boys often feel pressured to be athletic and muscular. But what impact does this have on physical and mental well-being through their teens and beyond? Worryingly, a third of teen boys are trying to 'bulk up' due to body dissatisfaction, and boys and men account for 25% of eating disorder cases. What can we tell our boys to help them feel happy and confident simply being themselves? Being You has the answers! It's an easy-to-read,...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Smell of Burning Ants is a haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness. Through formative events of a boy's life, we come to understand the ways in which men can become emotionally disconnected and alienated from their feminine side. The common dismissal that "boys will be...
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"At a time when many boys are in crisis, a much-needed roadmap for helping boys grow into strong and compassionate men Over the past two decades there has been an explosion of new studies that have expanded our knowledge of how boys think and feel. In How to Raise a Boy, psychologist Michael Reichert draws on his decades of research to challenge age-old conventions about how boys become men. Reichert explains how the paradigms about boys needing to...
6) The Boy Game
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The truth is all boys suffer under cultural codes that demand toughness and silence. This is the landscape in which kids who bully (who have often been targeted themselves) thrive but lose their emotional wholeness, the unspoken harness that keeps targets from speaking up, and that leaves the many bystanders watching, conflicted, but too scared to act. Boys desperately need a way to talk about the painful gender straitjacketing they are subject to,...
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